PETA’s Latest Effort Against Linda Bean Drives Home the Point

Linda Bean is experiencing some pain at the pump. PETA has just plastered our “Linda Mean” ads on top of gas pumps across Maine, so drivers who stop to fill up their tanks will also get an eyeful as to how Bean allows lobsters and crabs to be tortured at her Rockland slaughterhouse.

The L.L.Bean heiress has made a fortune selling lobsters and crabs to grocers as well as serving them at her Linda Bean’s Perfect Maine restaurants. So she can certainly afford to use a tiny portion of her profits to ensure that workers at her slaughterhouse electrically stun and quickly kill crustaceans before starting to butcher them. But instead, Bean has workers rip live animals apart limb from limb.

PETA’s undercover investigation showed workers tearing off live lobsters’ claws and then using metal pipes to pry their heads from their bodies. Workers saved the tails and claws and dumped the still-living lobsters into the trash to die slowly. Employees slammed the crabs against sharp metal spikes to break off their top shells and then violently scrubbed off their exposed internal organs with spinning brushes. The crabs were slowly lowered, still alive, into boiling water.

Tell Linda Mean’s Maimed Lobster to stop ripping live lobsters and crabs apart. If she’s going to rake in huge profits from their deaths, she should at least have the decency to kill them as quickly and with as little pain as possible.

Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos. We never considered the impact of these actions on the animals involved. For whatever reason, you are now asking the question: Why should animals have rights? Read more.